iPhone Giveaway of the Day - Shoonya Farm Animals

Shoonya Farm Animals is a fun interactive app that is created to introduce kids from 0 through 8 years to 14 farm animals in 9 world languages; English, Spanish, Hindi, Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi, Marathi, German and Arabic.

So if you are looking to learn languages, this is a great starting point. Shoonya Farm Animals teaches simple words such has animal names, simple sentences, accessories, clothing and landscapes in multiple languages such as English, Spanish, Hindi, German, Arabic, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati and Punjabi. You can choose to make to have the app either be a full immersion experience or creating a bi-lingual experience in learning foreign languages and cultural diversity through playful interactive play.

It has three different modes, created for different age groups with a very specific purpose.

Age Group: from 0 through 2 years.
- This is an auto play mode with barn animal sounds and barn animal names.
- Children enjoy fun animations of animal characters created from around the world.
- Choose a desired target language from the language scroll bar on the homescreen and tap on the language window for you to see all the animals displayed in the carousel.

Age Group: from 3 through 5 years.
- Interactive play mode.
- Live Animals with natural sounds.
- Touch to enjoy animal characters with fun animations.
- Explore animal names in various languages.
- Each page allows a child to change the target language so it actually makes learning animal names in multiple language fun and interactive!

Age Group: from 6 through 8 years
- Designed to spark children’s imagination as they dress up the animal with clothing, textures and designs sourced from around the world.
- Created and tested in classrooms to enhance fine motor skills while they expand, rotate, stretch the clothing and accessories.
- Introduction to sentences in multiple languages.
-Touch to learn various landscapes and simple words.

0-2 years.
Motive: Entertain and stimulate the child’s brain at the time when a child’s brain development is at the highest. Research shows that a human brain is hardwired to learn upto three languages by the age of six. One can take advantage of this special window by exposing a child to multiple foreign languages through this full immersion technique. Additionally you can also use it to expose the child to a single target language.

3- 5 years.
Motive: To engage the child with interactive play. This is the age when most children are learning to relate animal names with real animals. This mode gives them an opportunity to learn by interacting with the content. They can learn the animals in target language, be exposed to various foreign languages or simply enjoy the fun animations.

6- 8 years
Motive: Encourage children to have fun with languages and explore world clothing, accessories, textures. While every child is unique and their prior knowledge with technology will determine what play mode will will like to interact, this one particularly interests children for fun play.